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Thirty-two out of the 40 members of the Kano State House of Assembly yesterday closed ranks and passed a vote of no confidence on the House Speaker, Alhaji Yusuf Abdullahi Falgore, which was brought before the House by Hon. Lawan Safiyanu Gogori (Bagwa...
The Senate yesterday finally approved the recommendations of its adhoc committee that probed the commercialisation and privatisation activities of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). The report had recommended the immediate removal of the Director-...
Following the Supreme Court judgment of last Friday, in which the apex court declined jurisdiction to entertain the appeal filed by members of Senator Yakubu Garba Lado faction of the Katsina State chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) a...
The Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU), yesterday issued a 21-day ultimatum, beginning from Monday 19, December 2011, to the Federal, State and the Local Governments in Nigeria to finalise discussions and implement the new N18, 000 national minimum wag...
The Central Working Committee (CWC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday met with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja to further discuss on the controversial removal of petroleum subsidy. Though details of the meeting wer...
There are strong indications that the Federal Government may revisit the pricing of water in its bid to ensure adequate water supply in the country. &n...
Plateau State alone can contribute N120 billion to the national coffers if its tourism potential is maximised, according to the Director-General, Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), Chief Olusegun Runsewe. “With its rocks, the natural...
The Society for Benue Professionals (SBP) in the United States has called on former Senator Joseph Waku and other elders of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to desist from making provocative media statements on the government of Benue State and o...
The Federal Government has declared as public holidays Monday and Tuesday, December 26 and 27 respectively, in order to allow Christians commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. According to a statement signed by the Permanent Secretar...
The National Secretariat of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, has shifted its election in Gomber Council earlier slated for December 20, 2011 to the first quarter of next year to give room for proper organisation as stipulated by the...
A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Mohammed Sada, has expressed worry at the way some media practitioners mislead the public with their reports. Hon. Sada, who represents Katsina Central Federal Constituency on the platform of the Congress ...
Former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa said, yesterday, that it was easier to defeat a sitting governor just as he described Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a small political party where lazy politicians rush to make quick money and ...
Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers has urged the Federal Government to allow states to generate, transmit and distribute electricity in their states. In a statement in Port Harcourt on Tuesday Amaechi said, ``The Federal Government should accommodate stat...
Plateau State alone can contribute N120 billion to the national coffers if its tourism potential is maximized, Chief Olusegun Runsewe, the Director-General, Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), has said. ``With its rocks, the natural...
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has said that importation of major food like rice, wheat and sugar was an embarrassment to the nation. Adesina who spoke yesterday at a retreat in Minna, Niger state, stated that ...